Somos Impact Travel connects schools and student groups with local leaders solving the most pressing environmental and social challenges in Central and South America. Our leadership team lives and works in-country year-round — we build programs in places we know, with people we have worked alongside for years.
Our partners are the experts. Your students are the learners.
Reforestation, watershed restoration, regenerative agriculture, and indigenous ecological knowledge.
Grassroots education access, youth mentorship, bilingual and indigenous language programs, and women's cooperatives.
Language preservation, traditional knowledge systems, artisan cooperatives, land rights, and community governance.
Twenty-two Maya languages are spoken in a country the size of Tennessee. Three volcanoes stand over Lake Atitlán, and the towns around its shoreline run their own weaving cooperatives, water filtration programs, and reforestation nurseries.
Our co-founder was born and raised on the lake. Our longest-running partner, Wellkind Guatemala, has planted more than 200,000 trees with fifteen indigenous communities.
Cloud-covered ridgelines in the Maya Mountains, karst caves under the Cayo District, and the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere — all within a four-hour drive.
Belize is our field-station country. Programs are hosted inside working research stations where resident biologists run bird, bat, manatee, and reef monitoring, and students collect data alongside them. English is the national language, which lowers the barrier for first-time travelling groups.
Amazon lowland to 4,600-metre pass in a single itinerary. Madre de Dios holds some of the highest measured biodiversity on earth; six hundred kilometres west, Incan terraces and salt pans are still worked by the families who inherited them.
Programs pair hard science at the Los Amigos Conservation Hub with cultural and economic inquiry in Cusco and the Sacred Valley: weaving cooperatives, communally managed salt mines, and Quechua farming communities that host students overnight.
A quarter of the country is protected land, and much of it is governed locally rather than nationally. That makes Costa Rica the clearest place we work to study how communities finance and administer conservation themselves.
In Monteverde, a public high school board manages a cloud forest reserve and reinvests entrance fees into the school. At Playa Coyote, night patrols relocate olive ridley nests. In Coope San Juan, a rural cooperative governs its own land, agriculture, and cultural programs — and hosts students in family homestays.
Bocas del Toro is an archipelago where Afro-Caribbean fishing towns, Ngäbe-Buglé villages, coral reefs, and a fast-growing surf economy share the same handful of islands and the same water.
It is the sharpest place we work to ask what sustained repair looks like over the long term, because the pressures and the responses are both visible from the same boat.
We learn about your school, curriculum focus, students, and timeline. Every itinerary in this catalogue can be rebuilt around the partner organization that fits your group.
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